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if you scroll down and click "other languages", you arrive at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias

Apparently, these tables are updated from s23.org.  Some of the=20
links to the language pages could need to be updated.  For example=20
No. 244 Sichuan Yi has the article [[:w:Yi language]] and there is=20
no redirect from the link given in this list.

Another list, updated very long ago and only containing the top 50=20
languages, is given on=20
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias_by_speakers_per_article

I think the article count of that second list needs to be updated=20
more frequently, perhaps through s23.org, but the number of=20
speakers for each language can only be rough estimates anyway and=20
needs to be updated only very seldom.  I have tried to improve=20
that list by looking at the Wikipedia articles for each language. =20
The list is included below.  Please report to me any obvious=20
errors, for example where I'm off by a power of magnitude.

I haven't been able to put any numbers on the speakers of Latin,=20
Classic Chinese, Dutch Lower Saxon, or Simple English.  Some=20
languages have zero speakers in this list, e.g. Novial and Old=20
Church Slavonic. Is that fair? What numbers do you think should be=20
used?  I think we should use the number of people who can be=20
expected to *read* Wikipedia (given literacy and computer access)=20
so Latin should have more than zero, right?

In this table, column 1 is the language code, as used in subdomain=20
names under wikipedia.org, column 2 and 3 are the printable=20
language name in English and English Wikipedia page title, as used=20
in s23.org today, and column 4 is my estimate of the total number=20
of speakers. This table has 256 entries, just like the "List of=20
Wikipedias" page on meta.

aa|Afar|Afar language|1400000
ab|Abkhazian|Abkhazian language|200000
af|Afrikaans|Afrikaans language|6000000
ak|Akan|Akan language|9000000
als|Alemannic|Alemannic language|10000000
am|Amharic|Amharic language|27000000
an|Aragonese|Aragonese language|30000
ang|Anglo-Saxon|Anglo-Saxon language|0
ar|Arabic|Arabic language|323000000
arc|Assyrian Neo-Aramaic|Assyrian Neo-Aramaic language|210000
as|Assamese|Assamese language|13079696
ast|Asturian|Asturian language|550000
av|Avar|Avar language|600000
ay|Aymara|Aymara language|2200000
az|Azeri|Azeri language|30000000
ba|Bashkir|Bashkir language|1000000
bar|Bavarian|Bavarian language|12000000
bat-smg|Samogitian|Samogitian language|500000
bcl|Central Bicolano|Central Bicolano language|2500000
be|Belarusian|Belarusian language|7000000
be-x-old|Belarusian (Tarashkevitsa)|Belarusian (Tarashkevitsa) language|7=
000000
bg|Bulgarian|Bulgarian language|12000000
bh|Bihari|Bihari language|52000000
bi|Bislama|Bislama language|206000
bm|Bambara|Bambara language|2700000
bn|Bengali|Bengali language|207000000
bo|Tibetan|Tibetan language|6150000
bpy|Bishnupriya Manipuri|Bishnupriya Manipuri language|450000
br|Breton|Breton language|500000
bs|Bosnian|Bosnian language|2000000
bug|Buginese|Buginese language|3500000
bxr|Buryat (Russia)|Buryat (Russia) language|400000
ca|Catalan|Catalan language|12000000
cbk-zam|Zamboanga Chavacano|Zamboanga Chavacano language|607000
cdo|Min Dong|Min Dong language|9100000
ce|Chechen|Chechen language|1330000
ceb|Cebuano|Cebuano language|28000000
ch|Chamorro|Chamorro language|60000
cho|Choctaw|Choctaw language|9200
chr|Cherokee|Cherokee language|15000
chy|Cheyenne|Cheyenne language|1700
co|Corsican|Corsican language|400000
cr|Cree|Cree language|50000
crh|Crimean Tatar|Crimean Tatar language|400000
cs|Czech|Czech language|12000000
csb|Kashubian|Kashubian language|50000
cu|Old Church Slavonic|Old Church Slavonic language|0
cv|Chuvash|Chuvash language|2000000
cy|Welsh|Welsh language|600000
da|Danish|Danish language|5300000
de|German|German language|124000000
diq|Zazaki|Zazaki language|2500000
dsb|Lower Sorbian|Lower Sorbian language|14000
dv|Divehi|Divehi language|300000
dz|Dzongkha|Dzongkha language|600000
ee|Ewe|Ewe language|3000000
el|Greek|Greek language|12000000
eml|Emilian-Romagnol|Emilian-Romagnol language|2000000
en|English|English language|1000000000
eo|Esperanto|Esperanto language|2000000
es|Spanish|Spanish language|420000000
et|Estonian|Estonian language|1100000
eu|Basque|Basque language|580000
fa|Persian|Persian language|110000000
ff|Fula|Fula language|10000000
fi|Finnish|Finnish language|6000000
fiu-vro|V=C3=B5ro|V=C3=B5ro language|70000
fj|Fijian|Fijian language|550000
fo|Faroese|Faroese language|80000
fr|French|French language|130000000
frp|Franco-Proven=C3=A7al/Arpitan|Franco-Proven=C3=A7al/Arpitan language|=
113000
fur|Friulian|Friulian language|600000
fy|West Frisian|West Frisian language|400000
ga|Irish|Irish language|100000
gd|Scottish Gaelic|Scottish Gaelic language|60000
gl|Galician|Galician language|3500000
glk|Gilaki|Gilaki language|2000000
gn|Guarani|Guarani language|7000000
got|Gothic|Gothic language|0
gu|Gujarati|Gujarati language|46000000
gv|Manx|Manx language|1745
ha|Hausa|Hausa language|39000000
hak|Hakka|Hakka language|34000000
haw|Hawaiian|Hawaiian language|2000
he|Hebrew|Hebrew language|7000000
hi|Hindi|Hindi language|330000000
ho|Hiri Motu|Hiri Motu language|120000
hr|Croatian|Croatian language|5000000
hsb|Upper Sorbian|Upper Sorbian language|55000
ht|Haitian|Haitian language|7800000
hu|Hungarian|Hungarian language|14500000
hy|Armenian|Armenian language|7000000
hz|Herero|Herero language|133000
ia|Interlingua|Interlingua language|1500
id|Indonesian|Indonesian language|200000000
ie|Interlingue|Interlingue language|0
ig|Igbo|Igbo language|20000000
ii|Sichuan Yi|Sichuan Yi language|6000000
ik|Inupiak|Inupiak language|10000
ilo|Ilokano|Ilokano language|7000000
io|Ido|Ido language|2500
is|Icelandic|Icelandic language|300000
it|Italian|Italian language|70000000
iu|Inuktitut|Inuktitut language|30000
ja|Japanese|Japanese language|127000000
jbo|Lojban|Lojban language|0
jv|Javanese|Javanese language|100000000
ka|Georgian|Georgian language|4100000
kab|Kabyle|Kabyle language|7000000
kg|Kongo|Kongo language|7000000
ki|Kikuyu|Kikuyu language|5347000
kj|Kuanyama|Kuanyama language|670000
kk|Kazakh|Kazakh language|12000000
kl|Greenlandic|Greenlandic language|54000
km|Khmer|Khmer language|16000000
kn|Kannada|Kannada language|40000000
ko|Korean|Korean language|71000000
kr|Kanuri|Kanuri language|4000000
ks|Kashmiri|Kashmiri language|4600000
ksh|Ripuarian|Ripuarian language|250000
ku|Kurdish|Kurdish language|20000000
kv|Komi|Komi language|293000
kw|Cornish|Cornish language|3500
ky|Kirghiz|Kirghiz language|3136733
la|Latin|Latin language|
lad|Ladino|Ladino language|110000
lb|Luxembourgish|Luxembourgish language|300000
lbe|Lak|Lak language|120000
lg|Luganda|Luganda language|3110000
li|Limburgian|Limburgian language|1600000
lij|Ligurian|Ligurian language|0
lmo|Lombard|Lombard language|9130000
ln|Lingala|Lingala language|10000000
lo|Lao|Lao language|5225552
lt|Lithuanian|Lithuanian language|4000000
lv|Latvian|Latvian language|1500000
map-bms|Banyumasan|Banyumasan language|15000000
mg|Malagasy|Malagasy language|6000000
mh|Marshallese|Marshallese language|43900
mi|Maori|Maori language|150000
mk|Macedonian|Macedonian language|2000000
ml|Malayalam|Malayalam language|35700000
mn|Mongolian|Mongolian language|5700000
mo|Moldovan|Moldovan language|2030000
mr|Marathi|Marathi language|90000000
ms|Malay|Malay language|30000000
mt|Maltese|Maltese language|600000
mus|Muscogee|Muscogee language|4300
my|Burmese|Burmese language|42000000
mzn|Mazandarani|Mazandarani language|3000000
na|Nauruan|Nauruan language|6000
nah|Nahuatl|Nahuatl language|1500000
nap|Neapolitan|Neapolitan language|7500000
nds|Low Saxon|Low Saxon language|10000000
nds-nl|Dutch Low Saxon|Dutch Low Saxon language|
ne|Nepali|Nepali language|40000000
new|Newar / Nepal Bhasa|Newar / Nepal Bhasa language|1000000
ng|Ndonga|Ndonga language|690000
nl|Dutch|Dutch language|23000000
nn|Norwegian (Nynorsk)|Norwegian (Nynorsk) language|500000
no|Norwegian (Bokm=C3=A5l)|Norwegian (Bokm=C3=A5l) language|5000000
nov|Novial|Novial language|0
nrm|Norman|Norman language|20000
nv|Navajo|Navajo language|178000
ny|Chichewa|Chichewa language|9300000
oc|Occitan|Occitan language|1900000
om|Oromo|Oromo language|25000000
or|Oriya|Oriya language|31000000
os|Ossetian|Ossetian language|500000
pa|Punjabi|Punjabi language|88000000
pag|Pangasinan|Pangasinan language|1500000
pam|Kapampangan|Kapampangan language|2300000
pap|Papiamentu|Papiamentu language|329000
pdc|Pennsylvania German|Pennsylvania German language|300000
pi|Pali|Pali language|0
pih|Norfolk|Norfolk language|616
pl|Polish|Polish language|46000000
pms|Piedmontese|Piedmontese language|2000000
ps|Pashto|Pashto language|50000000
pt|Portuguese|Portuguese language|213000000
qu|Quechua|Quechua language|10400000
rm|Romansh|Romansh language|70000
rmy|Romani|Romani language|4800000
rn|Kirundi|Kirundi language|4600000
ro|Romanian|Romanian language|28000000
roa-rup|Aromanian|Aromanian language|300000
roa-tara|Tarantino|Tarantino language|900000
ru|Russian|Russian language|255000000
rw|Kinyarwanda|Kinyarwanda language|7000000
sa|Sanskrit|Sanskrit language|200000
sc|Sardinian|Sardinian language|2500000
scn|Sicilian|Sicilian language|10000000
sco|Scots|Scots language|1500000
sd|Sindhi|Sindhi language|21300000
se|Northern Sami|Northern Sami language|20000
sg|Sango|Sango language|2000000
sh|Serbo-Croatian|Serbo-Croatian language|20000000
si|Sinhalese|Sinhalese language|15000000
simple|Simple English|Simple English language|
sk|Slovak|Slovak language|6000000
sl|Slovenian|Slovenian language|2200000
sm|Samoan|Samoan language|370337
sn|Shona|Shona language|7000000
so|Somali|Somali language|10000000
sq|Albanian|Albanian language|6000000
sr|Serbian|Serbian language|11000000
ss|Swati|Swati language|1706924
st|Sesotho|Sesotho language|5000000
stq|Saterland Frisian|Saterland Frisian language|2000
su|Sundanese|Sundanese language|27000000
sv|Swedish|Swedish language|9000000
sw|Swahili|Swahili language|40000000
ta|Tamil|Tamil language|74000000
te|Telugu|Telugu language|80000000
tet|Tetum|Tetum language|800000
tg|Tajik|Tajik language|4380000
th|Thai|Thai language|50000000
ti|Tigrinya|Tigrinya language|6700000
tk|Turkmen|Turkmen language|9000000
tl|Tagalog|Tagalog language|87000000
tlh|Klingon|Klingon language|16
tn|Tswana|Tswana language|4407174
to|Tongan|Tongan language|105000
tokipona|Tokipona|Tokipona language|3
tpi|Tok Pisin|Tok Pisin language|4000000
tr|Turkish|Turkish language|80000000
ts|Tsonga|Tsonga language|3275105
tt|Tatar|Tatar language|8000000
tum|Tumbuka|Tumbuka language|2000000
tw|Twi|Twi language|7000000
ty|Tahitian|Tahitian language|120000
udm|Udmurt|Udmurt language|550000
ug|Uyghur|Uyghur language|10000000
uk|Ukrainian|Ukrainian language|41000000
ur|Urdu|Urdu language|104000000
uz|Uzbek|Uzbek language|18500000
ve|Venda|Venda language|750000
vec|Venetian|Venetian language|2200000
vi|Vietnamese|Vietnamese language|80000000
vls|West Flemish|West Flemish language|1160000
vo|Volap=C3=BCk|Volap=C3=BCk language|25
wa|Walloon|Walloon language|600000
war|Waray-Waray|Waray-Waray language|3000000
wo|Wolof|Wolof language|6700000
wuu|Wu|Wu language|77000000
xal|Kalmyk|Kalmyk language|518500
xh|Xhosa|Xhosa language|7900000
yi|Yiddish|Yiddish language|3000000
yo|Yoruba|Yoruba language|21000000
za|Zhuang|Zhuang language|14000000
zea|Zealandic|Zealandic language|250000
zh|Chinese|Chinese language|1080000000
zh-classical|Classical Chinese|Classical Chinese language|
zh-min-nan|Min Nan|Min Nan language|46000000
zh-yue|Cantonese|Cantonese language|66000000
zu|Zulu|Zulu language|26000000



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  Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
  Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se